Getting your children accustomed to visiting a pediatric dentist is a great start toward a life of healthy oral hygiene. In fact, the combination of your children going to see their pediatric dentist and knowing that you keep your regular adult dental appointments, instills a life long habit. How are you doing? Are you helping set a good example for your children and the oral hygiene habits that they should have? Are you taking them to their pediatric dental appointments, as well keeping the appointments that you need to make sure that your teeth are clean and healthy?
For many Americans, finding the right dentist is the secret to making sure that they follow through on the necessary dentist appointments. In fact, by following specific dental hygiene routines and making sure that you continue to visit the dentists that you and your children see on a regular basis, your teeth, gums, and smile can help you look and feel your best.
Consider these statistics about healthy oral hygiene and the role that both parents and pediatric dentists play in making sure that children get off to a great start of caring for their teeth:

• Getting your children in the habit of going to twice a year checkups when they are young establishes a pattern that will benefit them their entire life.
• Real confidence begins with a natural smile.
• Enamel can be damaged if too many sugary drinks are consumed. For instance, the sports products that continue to grow increasingly popular are one product that cause the loss of enamel.
• As many as 250,000 pediatric dental sedations are performed each year in America.
• The fact that dental professionals continue to gain advanced training in the proper ways to employ and monitor the use of pediatric dental sedation, it should come as no surprise that practice is becoming more common.






• Studies from the 2012 Journal of Pediatric Dentistry found that more than 65% of parents using bottled water did not even know what levels of fluoride it contained.
• Many decisions that parents make have a dramatic effect on their children. Dental hygiene is one of those decisions.
• Instead of dealing with tooth decay later in life, it is important to make sure that you follow through with your daily oral health habits.
• Learning the alphabet is one way to help your children learn how long they should brush their teeth. If, for instance, you teach your children to brush their teeth as long as it takes to sing the alphabet can be a fun approach.
• Eating the right kind of diet can help you have healthier teeth.
• Smiles can help people make the best first impression.

Both for children and adults, HEALTHY SMILES are important. Finding a way to make sure that you are able to look and feel your best, in fact, often requires careful attention to great dental hygiene habits.